Shadow and Light
Barry Stewart Mann is with us today to celebrate tomorrow’s Tellabration, a night of worldwide storytelling for the millennium that was begun by the storytelling troupe of Charleston, South Carolina.
“Baby Einstein” and Other Geniuses
Koren Stembridge has been watching the “Baby Einstein” videos with her young son. Here’s her review.
The Muppet Show
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jim-Hensen-and-The-Muppet-Show.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 9/13/2001 The Muppet Show Transcript As the creator of The Muppet Show, Jim Henson produced one of the most unlikely, unique and successful programs ever to be beamed into our living rooms. At the height of the show’s popularity, the program was watched by […]
Quiz Kids
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Quiz-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/6/2001 Quiz Kids Transcript How many seconds are there in a year? If the Northern Lights are called the Aurora Borealis, what are the Southern Lights called? These were two of the questions that children between the ages of four and sixteen were asked […]
Happy Birthday to Rosie
That’s Rosie O’Donnell doing stand up in the baby ward for the other newborns, from her HBO special, “Kids are Punny.”
Generation O
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Generation-O.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 12/8/2000 Generation O Transcript Here’s Karen Stembridge on the Internet to tell us about a new generation – “Generation O.” One of my happiest childhood memories is of curling up in the big chair in the living room Saturday mornings to watch cartoons. Armed […]
Teacher’s Pet
When was the last morning you heard a Saturday morning cartoon open with background music from Leo Delibes’s opera Lakme?
Daniel Boone
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Daniel-Boone.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/2/2000 Daniel Boone Transcript It’s the birthday tomorrow of one of the major, mythological presences of American culture, Daniel Boone — pioneer, woodsman, hunter, colonizer. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1734, and in a life that spanned 86 years — a remarkable feat […]
Mickey Mouse Club Premiers
The Mickey Mouse Club marched into the consciousness of American children on October 3rd, 1955, when it first appeared on national television, and millions of middle schoolers, myself included, tuned in.